Middle School Series
Three-year sequence of courses in both English and Spanish
- Core Connections, Course 1 – 6th grade
- Core Connections, Course 2 – 7th grade
- Core Connections, Course 3 – 8th grade
Prepare students for rigorous mathematics
Provide daily
opportunities
for students
Curriculum Resources
Study Teams
eTools for Exploration
Learning Logs
Toolkits
Mixed Spaced Practice with Homework Help
Puzzle Investigator
Parent Guide
Lesson Mathcasts for Teachers
Study Teams
Study Teams
- Students work in teams of two or four
- Creates environment for student discussion, sharing of ideas, and articulate their thinking
- Provides security to allow students to take risks to refine their ideas, questions, and approaches
eTools for Exploration
eTools for Exploration
- Activities to build conceptual understanding
- CPM proprietary tools, algebra tiles and integer tiles, and Integrated digital activities
Learning Logs
Learning Logs
- Prompts students to reflect on their learning
- Students describe their understanding in their own words
- Provide closure to a lesson or clarification of a concept
Toolkits
Tool Kits
- Consumable items and working documents for student learning
- Includes Learning Log entries, Math Notes, images from student edition
- Students create personal reference tools
Mixed Spaced Practice with Homework Help
Mixed Spaced Practice with Homework Help
- Provides students practice with past material
- Lays a foundation for future learning
- Multiple opportunities for students to revisit skills
- Homework help linked from eBook provides support for students’ emerging understanding of new topics
- Includes solved problems, hints to get started, and references to previously solved problems
Puzzle Investigator
Puzzle Investigator
- Students focus on the process of solving complex problems
- Interesting complex problems
- Students develop skills to show, explain, and justify their work and thoughts
Parent Guide
Parent Guide
- Alternative explanation of key ideas
- Additional practice problems
- Arranged by chapter and topic
- Includes a brief restatement of the idea, typical examples, practice problems, and the answers to those problems
Lesson Mathcasts for Teachers
Lesson Math Casts for Teachers
- Aide in preparing lessons
- Outlines the lesson problems
- Gives suggestions for facilitating the teams
Table of Contents
Core Connections, Course 1-3
Correlations
CPM's 8th Grade Support Course, Inspirations & Ideas
Designed to support students in CPM’s Core Connections, Course 3 who sometimes struggle with mathematics. The expectation is that students in Inspirations & Ideas will be concurrently enrolled in Core Connections, Course 3, and therefore will have two math classes daily. Ideally, Inspirations & Ideas is a non-graded course, with no homework, and no summative assessments.
